Back K3

Fat fingers... Make that wandering "mouse"....

Many of you are aware of the incompetence I have to put up with here in the radio room.  I was reminded of this again today when the K-Line quit transmitting on 20m.  It was fine on every other band. On 20m there was no power out to the amp and the exciter reported a very high SWR. The answer was painfully simple.  It just took several hours to identify.  The originating cause can be seen in the following image.

Notice the buttons immediately adjacent to the "Tune" button.

What was the problem?

IC-7610 Ready to go out the door...

New Shack

Connections

Almost done...

K-Line On-Line

View the video.

The K-3 Monitor was on thus the slight echo.

Work in Progress

K3

K-Line Waking Up

Rebuild Underway

Station under construction...

IC-7610

Click on image below to enlarge...

Upgrade complete

Reinstall the sub-receiver

and upgraded is ready for testing.

KXV3B Option

There's another one Harry!

Are they breeding!?

Ummh...

I doughno... What do you think?

Technique is everything...

Seated...

"The pins just clear..."

Hey, Fred, give me the hammer!

Adding KXV3B to K3

Notice the "L" shaped 2nd receiver with synthesizers just behind K3.

Op Pos 5/3/2017